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1Long-Term Debt Requirements for Large Bank 

Holding Companies, Certain Intermediate Holding 

Companies of Foreign Banking Organizations, and 

Large Insured Depository Institutions, 88 FR 64524 

(September 19, 2023), https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/19/ 

2023-19265/long-term-debt-requirements-for-largebank-holding-companies-certain-intermediateholding-companies. 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

September 19, 2023, the agencies 

published in the Federal Register a 

proposal to require certain large 

depository institution holding 

companies, U.S. intermediate holding 

companies of foreign banking 

organizations, and insured depository 

institutions, to issue and maintain 

outstanding a minimum amount of longterm debt.1 The notice of proposed 

rulemaking stated that the comment 

period would close on November 30, 

2023. The agencies have received 

requests to extend the comment period. 

An extension of the comment period 

will provide additional opportunity for 

the public to consider the proposal and 

prepare comments, including to address 

the questions posed by the agencies. 

Therefore, the agencies are extending 

the end of the comment period for the 

proposal from November 30, 2023, to 

January 16, 2024. 

Michael J. Hsu, 

Acting Comptroller of the Currency. 

By order of the Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System, acting through the 

Secretary of the Board under delegated 

authority. 

Ann E. Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Dated at Washington, DC, on November 20, 

2023. 

James P. Sheesley, 

Assistant Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26202 Filed 11–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–33–6210–01–6714–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

34 CFR Chapter VI 

[Docket ID ED–2023–OPE–0039] 

Negotiated Rulemaking Committee; 

Negotiator Nominations and Schedule 

of Committee Meetings 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Intent to establish rulemaking 

committee. 

SUMMARY: We announce our intention to 

establish a negotiated rulemaking 

committee to prepare proposed 

regulations for Federal programs 

authorized under title IV of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(HEA). The committee will include 

representatives of organizations or 

groups with interests that are 

significantly affected by the subject 

matter of the proposed regulations. We 

request nominations for individual 

negotiators who represent key 

stakeholder constituencies for the issues 

to be negotiated to serve on the 

committee. We also announce the 

creation of a subcommittee, and request 

nominations for individuals with 

pertinent expertise to participate on the 

subcommittee. The Department has also 

set a schedule for committee meetings. 


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DATES: We must receive your 

nominations for negotiators to serve on 

the committee on or before December 

13, 2023. The dates and times of the 

committee meetings are set out in the 

Schedule for Negotiations section in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. All 

meetings will be virtual. 

ADDRESSES: Please email your 

nominations for negotiators to 

negregnominations@ed.gov. If you are 

unable to email your nomination, please 

contact Aaron Washington. Telephone: 

(202) 987–0911. Email: 

aaron.washington@ed.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about negotiated 

rulemaking, see ‘‘The Negotiated 

Rulemaking Process for Title IV 

Regulations—Frequently Asked 

Questions’’ at https://www2.ed.gov/ 

policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/ 

hea08/neg-reg-faq.html. For information 

on the nomination submission process, 

email: negregnominations@ed.gov. 

For information about the content of 

this document, including additional 

information about the negotiated 

rulemaking process, please contact 

Aaron Washington. Telephone: (202) 

987–0911. Email: aaron.washington@

ed.gov. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 24, 2023, we published in 

the Federal Register (88 FR 17777) an 

announcement of our intent to establish 

a negotiated rulemaking committee. We 

also announced public hearings at 

which interested parties could comment 

on the topics for negotiation suggested 

by the Department and suggest 

additional topics for consideration for 

action by the negotiated rulemaking 

committee. Those hearings took place 

virtually on April 11–13, 2023. 

You may view written comments 

submitted in response to the 

aforementioned Federal Register 

notification through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. Instructions for 

finding comments are available on the 

site under ‘‘FAQ.’’ Enter Docket ID ED– 

2023–OPE–0039 in the search box to 

locate the appropriate docket. 

Committee Topics 

After considering the information 

received at the public hearing and the 

written comments, we have decided to 

establish the Program Integrity and 

Institutional Quality Committee 

(Committee) to address the following 

topics: 

1. The Secretary’s recognition of 

accrediting agencies under 34 CFR part 

602 and related parts; 

2. Institutional eligibility under 34 

CFR 600.2, including State 

authorization as a component of such 

eligibility under 34 CFR 600.9; 

3. The requirements for distance 

education under 34 CFR 600.2 that 

pertain to clock hour programs and 

reporting for students who enroll 

primarily online; 

4. Return of title IV funds, to address 

requirements for participating 

institutions to return unearned title IV 

funds in a manner that protects students 

and taxpayers while easing the 

administrative burden for institutions of 

higher education under 34 CFR 668.22; 

5. Cash management, to address 

timely student access to disbursements 

of title IV, HEA Federal student 

financial assistance and provisions 

related to credit balances, escheatment, 

and loss of such funds under 34 CFR 

part 668, subpart K; and 

6. The eligibility requirements for 

participants in the Federal TRIO 

Programs. 

As a part of the negotiated rulemaking 

process, we are forming a Federal TRIO 

Programs Subcommittee to expand the 

range of expertise and constituencies 

represented on this topic. The 

Committee will consider the 

subcommittee’s recommendations in its 

consideration of proposed regulations 

relating to changes to participant 

eligibility requirements in the Federal 

TRIO Programs. 

The subcommittee will address TRIO 

participant eligibility and make 

recommendations to the Committee. 

The subcommittee is not authorized to 

make decisions for the Committee. The 

subcommittee may be comprised of 

some members of the Committee 

(negotiators), as well as individuals who 

are not Committee members but who 

have expertise that will be helpful in 

developing proposed regulations. 

Therefore, in addition to asking for 

nominations for individual negotiators 

who represent key stakeholder 

constituencies for issues to be 

negotiated to serve on the Committee 

(see Constituencies for Negotiator 

Nominations), we seek nominations for 

individuals with expertise regarding the 

Federal TRIO Programs, particularly the 

eligibility requirements, to serve on the 

subcommittee. Before conclusion of the 

negotiations, the subcommittee will 

present its recommendations for 

regulatory changes to the Committee for 

its consideration. 

We intend to select negotiators for the 

Committee who represent the interests 

of those significantly affected by the 

topics proposed for negotiation. In so 

doing, we will comply with the 

requirement in section 492(b)(1) of the 

HEA that the individuals selected must 

have demonstrated expertise or 

experience in the relevant topics 

proposed for negotiations. We will also 

select negotiators who reflect the 

diversity among program participants, 

in accordance with section 492(b)(1) of 

the HEA. Our goal is to establish a 

committee that will allow significantly 

affected parties to be represented while 

keeping the size manageable. We 

encourage negotiators, to the extent they 

are able, to demonstrate support from 

organizations, entities, or individuals 

beyond themselves. 

We generally select a primary and 

alternate negotiator for each 

constituency represented on a 

committee. The primary negotiator 

participates for the purpose of 

determining consensus. The alternate 

participates for the purpose of 

determining consensus in the absence of 

the primary negotiator. The Department 

will provide more detailed information 

to both primary and alternate 

negotiators selected to participate on the 

Committee about the logistics and 

protocols of the meetings. The 

subcommittee will only include primary 

members. We will not select alternates 

for the subcommittee. 

Members of the public may observe 

the Committee meetings, will have 

access to individuals representing their 

constituencies, and may be able to 

participate in informal working groups 

on issues between the meetings. 

At the end of each day of the main 

committee meetings (except for the final 

day of the final session), the Department 

will reserve 30 minutes for public 

comment. We will provide information 

on how to request time to speak on our 

website at www2.ed.gov/policy/ 

highered/reg/hearulemaking/2023/ 

index.html. We will notify speakers of 

the time slot reserved for them and 

provide information on how to log in to 

the hearing as a speaker. An individual 

may make only one presentation during 

the public comment periods. If we 

receive more registrations than we can 

accommodate, we reserve the right to 

reject the registration of an entity or 

individual affiliated with an entity to 

present comments to ensure that a broad 

range of entities and individuals are 

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Constituencies for Negotiator 

Nominations 

We have identified the following 

constituencies as having interests that 

are significantly affected by the topics 

proposed for negotiation. We plan to 

include negotiators who represent these 

constituencies. We particularly 

encourage individuals or organizations 

representing the interests of historically 

underserved or low-income 

communities to nominate themselves. 

We also encourage institutions of higher 

education that are currently recipients 

of a Federal TRIO Program grant to 

submit nominations under the 

appropriate constituency on the main 

committee. 

Nominations should include evidence 

of the nominee’s specific knowledge of 

the issues listed under the Committee 

Topics heading earlier in this notice. 

The Department strongly encourages 

nominees to list all constituencies under 

which they would like to be considered. 

The Department reserves the discretion 

to have a nominee represent a 

constituency based upon their 

background and experience even if the 

individual was not nominated for that 

specific category. Constituencies for the 

Committee are: 

(1) Civil rights organizations and 

consumer advocates. 

(2) Legal assistance organizations. 

(3) State officials, including State 

higher education executive officers, 

State authorizing agencies, and State 

regulators of institutions of higher 

education. 

(4) State attorneys general. 

(5) Students or borrowers, including 

currently enrolled borrowers, or groups 

representing them. 

(6) U.S. military service members, 

veterans, or groups representing them. 

(7) Public four-year institutions of 

higher education. 

(8) Public two-year institutions of 

higher education. 

(9) Private nonprofit institutions of 

higher education. 

(10) Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities, Tribal Colleges and 

Universities, and Minority-serving 

institutions (institutions of higher 

education eligible to receive Federal 

assistance under title III, parts A and F, 

and title V of the HEA). 

(11) Proprietary institutions of higher 

education. 

(12) Institutional accrediting agencies 

recognized by the Secretary. 

(13) Programmatic accrediting 

agencies recognized by the Secretary, to 

include State agencies recognized for 

the approval of nurse education. 

(14) Financial aid administrators. 

(15) Business officers from 

institutions of higher education. 

The goal of the committee is to 

develop proposed regulations that 

reflect a final consensus of the 

committee. Consensus means that there 

is no dissent by any member of a 

negotiating committee, including the 

committee member representing the 

Department. 

A negotiator is expected to represent 

the interests of their constituency and to 

participate in the negotiations in a 

manner consistent with the goal of 

developing proposed regulations on 

which the committee will reach 

consensus. If consensus is reached, all 

members of the organization or group 

represented by a negotiator are bound 

by the consensus and are prohibited 

from commenting negatively on the 

resulting proposed regulations. The 

Department will not consider any such 

negative comments on the proposed 

regulations that are submitted by a 

member of such an organization. 

We are also interested in nominations 

for members of the Federal TRIO 

Programs Subcommittee from 

individuals who represent the following 

groups: 

(1) Institutions of higher education. 

(2) Public or private agencies or 

organizations, including communitybased organizations with experience in 

serving disadvantaged youth. 

(3) Secondary schools, including local 

educational agencies with secondary 

schools. 

(4) Current or former participants in a 

Federal TRIO Program. 

(5) State officials, including State 

higher education executive officers, 

State authorizing agencies, and State 

regulators of institutions of higher 

education. 

We encourage institutions of higher 

education, public and private agencies 

and organizations, and secondary 

schools that are currently recipients of 

a Federal TRIO Program grant to submit 

nominations. 

Nominations 

We request that nominations for both 

the committee and the subcommittee 

include the information described in 

this section. 

(1) The name of the nominee; 

(2) The name of the constituency (or 

constituencies) for which the nominee 

is being nominated (see Constituencies 

for Negotiator Nominations); 

(3) The nominee’s place of 

employment or institution at which they 

are or were enrolled and, if different, the 

organization the nominee represents; 

(4) A resume or evidence of the 

nominee’s expertise and experience in 

the topics proposed for negotiations; 

and 

(5) The nominee’s contact 

information, including email address, 

telephone number, and mailing address. 

Please see the ADDRESSES section for 

submission information. We will 

confirm receipt of nominations to the 

submitter. The Department will provide 

additional information to those we 

select to serve as negotiators. Once 

complete, a list of negotiators will be 

posted here: https://www2.ed.gov/ 

policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/ 

2023/index.html. The Department will 

also provide information at that site 

about how any committee vacancies can 

be filled at the beginning of the first 

committee meeting. 

Schedule for Negotiations 

The Committee will meet for three 

sessions on the following dates: 

Session 1: January 8–11, 2024. 

Session 2: February 5–8, 2024. 

Session 3: March 4–7, 2024. 

Session times will be from 10 a.m. to 

12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., with a 

public comment period from 

approximately 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., 

Eastern time. 

The subcommittee will meet for two 

sessions on the following dates: 

Session 1: January 12, 2024. 

Session 2: February 9, 2024. 

Session times will be from 10 a.m. to 

12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Eastern 

time. There will not be a public 

comment period for the subcommittee 

meetings. 

All sessions will be conducted 

virtually and available for the public to 

view. Individuals who wish to observe 

the committee meetings will be required 

to register for each session they would 

like to observe. We will post registration 

links closer to the start of negotiations 

on our website at www2.ed.gov/policy/ 

highered/reg/hearulemaking/2023/ 

index.html. The Department will also 

post recordings and transcripts of the 

meetings on that site. 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document in an accessible format. 

The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 


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www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

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using the article search feature at 

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through the advanced search feature at 

this site, you can limit your search to 

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Authority: Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 

1098a. 

Nasser H. Paydar, 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26198 Filed 11–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[FF09E21000 FXES1111090FEDR245] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Seven Species Not 

Warranted for Listing as Endangered 

or Threatened Species 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notification of findings. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce 

findings that seven species are not 

warranted for listing as endangered or 

threatened species under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). After a thorough review 

of the best available scientific and 

commercial information, we find that it 

is not warranted at this time to list 

Edison’s ascyrum (Hypericum 

edisonianum), Florida (lowland) 

loosestrife (Lythrum flagellare), Florida 

pinesnake (Pituophis melanoleucus 

mugitu), mimic cavesnail 

(Phreatodrobia imitata), northern 

cavefish (Amblyopsis spelaea), 

smallscale darter (Etheostoma 

microlepidum), and Texas troglobitic 

water slater (Lirceolus smithii). 

However, we ask the public to submit to 

us at any time any new information 

relevant to the status of any of the 

species mentioned above or their 

habitats. 

DATES: The findings in this document 

were made on November 29, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Detailed descriptions of the 

bases for these findings are available on 

the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov under the 

following docket numbers: 

Species Docket No. 

Edison’s ascyrum ............................................................................................................................................................ FWS–R4–ES–2023–0172 

Florida (lowland) loosestrife ............................................................................................................................................ FWS–R4–ES–2023–0173 

Florida pinesnake ........................................................................................................................................................... FWS–R4–ES–2023–0174 

Mimic cavesnail .............................................................................................................................................................. FWS–R2–ES–2023–0175 

Northern cavefish ............................................................................................................................................................ FWS–R4–ES–2023–0176 

Smallscale darter ............................................................................................................................................................ FWS–R4–ES–2023–0177 

Texas troglobitic water slater .......................................................................................................................................... FWS–R2–ES–2023–0178 

Those descriptions are also available 

by contacting the appropriate person as 

specified under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Please submit any 

new information, materials, comments, 

or questions concerning this finding to 

the appropriate person, as specified 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Species Contact information 

Edison’s ascyrum, Florida (lowland) loosestrife, 

and Florida pinesnake.

Lourdes Mena, Division Manager, Florida Ecological Services Field Office, lourdes_mena@

fws.gov, 904–460–4970. 

Mimic cavesnail and Texas troglobitic water 

slater.

Karen Myers, Field Supervisor, Austin Ecological Services Field Office, karen_myers@fws.gov, 

512–937–7371. 

Northern cavefish ................................................ Lee Andrews, Field Supervisor, Kentucky Ecological Services Field Office, lee_andrews@

fws.gov, 502–695–0468 ext. 46108. 

Smallscale darter ................................................ Dan Elbert, Field Supervisor, Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office, daniel_elbert@

fws.gov, 931–525–4973. 

Individuals in the United States who 

are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability may dial 711 

(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under section 4(b)(3)(B) of the Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), we are required to 

make a finding on whether or not a 

petitioned action is warranted within 12 

months after receiving any petition that 

we have determined contains 

substantial scientific or commercial 

information indicating that the 

petitioned action may be warranted 

(‘‘12-month finding’’). We must make a 

finding that the petitioned action is: (1) 

Not warranted; (2) warranted; or (3) 

warranted, but precluded by other 

listing activity. We must publish a 

notification of these 12-month findings 

in the Federal Register. 

Summary of Information Pertaining to 

the Five Factors 

Section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1533) 

and the implementing regulations at 

part 424 of title 50 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (50 CFR part 424) 

set forth procedures for adding species 

to, removing species from, or 

reclassifying species on the Lists of 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants (Lists). The Act defines 

‘‘species’’ as including any subspecies 

of fish or wildlife or plants, and any 

distinct population segment of any 

species of vertebrate fish or wildlife 


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